Education In Drama

Education In Drama
ISBN-10
1136615253
ISBN-13
9781136615252
Category
Education
Pages
198
Language
English
Published
2012-11-12
Publisher
Routledge
Author
David Hornbrook

Description

Hornbrook, referring to current legislation, argues the case for an organized curricular framework for drama in the 1990s which develops in children the activities of designing, directing, acting, writing and evaluating - all within the range of the historic context of dramatic work. He asserts that recent drama teaching in Britain has been child-centred and psychological, and viewed as a learning medium rather than as an aesthetic study in itself. This, he believes, has had the effect of cutting children off from the variegated world of the theatre and, in the broader sense, from any collective aesthetic or historical dimension. This book is intended mainly for the use of primary and secondary school teachers.

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